Excerpt from The Making of America, Vol. 10: Public Welfare It is true that these two systems have grown up some what independent of each other, and sometimes there is con flict or competition between them. Even German municipal councilors may be heard to complain that the church parishes, especially those with large funds, do not cooperate with each other or with the city, in an harmonious plan of helping the poor. In the United States, where the horror of bureaucracy is so strong, we have reconciled ourselves to the tyranny and corruption of bossism and spoils, evils unknown in German ad ministration of poor relief. In many places our efforts to se cure information to which every taxpayer has a moral and legal right, ane often treated with that insolence which is evi dence that investigation is both hated and feared. In many places no statistics of value are kept, and original records are burned at frequent intervals on the plea that unfortun ate citizens in need of help should not have their names kept in a public record. In German cities the feelings of dependents are more respected than here, and the administration is prac tically efi'ective through voluntary and unpaid visitors, care fully selected by the authorities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.